60 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38991 to 39101— Continued. 



39020. Juncus GRiSEBACHii Buchenau. Juneaceae. 



Distribution. — A perennial Juncus growing about 2 feet tall, on the 

 subalpine slopes of the Himalayas in Sikkim, Kumaon, and Bhutan, in 

 northern India. 



39021. Mallotus sp. Euphorbiaceae. 



39022. Meconopsis wallichii Hook. Papaveraceae. 



" This is undoubtedly one of the finest of the poppyworts in cultivation. 

 It is an extremely handsome herbaceous biennial and is remarkable, 

 being one of the few if not the only true blue-flowered poppy in culti- 

 vation at the present time. It attains a height of 4 to 7 feet and forms 

 a perfect pyramid. It is exceedingly beautiful when in full flower. The 

 blossoms are about 3 inches in diameter, broadly saucer shaped, pendent, 

 and of a lovely shade of blue. The blooms always commence to open 

 at the summit of the stem, then gradually from day to day expand, until 

 the lowest and last bud is reached." (The Garden, July 12, WIS.) 



39023. Meibomia tiliaefolia (G. Don) Kuntze. Fabaceae. 

 (Desmodium tiliaefolium G. Don.) 



Distribution. — A shrubby legume with lindenlike leaves and long 

 racemes of large pink flowers, found in the temperate and tropical 

 Himalayas up to an altitude of 9,000 feet in northern India. 



" A semiwoody plant, which sends up annually from a woody rootstock 

 a number of erect stems 2 to 4 feet high, more or less downy. Leaves 

 trifoliolate, with a main stalk 2 to 3 inches long. Panicles terminal, 

 8 to 12 inches high, the lower section borne in the uppermost leaf axils. 

 Flowers one-half inch long, varying from pale lilac to dark pink, borne 

 on a slender stalk not quite so long as itself. Native of the Himalayas 

 at 9,000 feet. It flowers from August to October, but needs a hot sum- 

 mer to bring out its best qualities. In cold, wet seasons the flowers do 

 not open at all. Propagated by division of the rootstock in spring. The 

 late Sir Henry Collett called this a ' protean plant ' ; the form in culti- 

 vation is one whose leaves are not very downy." (W. J. Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. ^80, under Desmodium tiliae- 

 folium. 



39024. Michelia lanuginosa Wallich. Magnoliaceae. 



39025. Michelia sp. Magnoliaeea*. 



39026. Mucuna imbricata DC. Fabaceae. 



39027. Clematis zeylanica (L.) Poir. Ranunculaceae. Clematis. 

 (Naravelia zeylanica DC.) 



"A scandent bush, very plentiful in the tropical Himalayas from East 

 Nepal eastward to Bengal, Assam, and also distributed to Ceylon. 

 Around Calcutta it is one of the most abundant of plants. A fiber is 

 obtained from the stems of this species which is twisted into rough but 

 very useful ropes." (Matt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of 

 India.) 



